I have a HP Server DL320 G5. There are two SATA hard disks configured as RAID 1 through HP embedded RAID controller. Server OS is running GNU/Linux (Fedora) Server booted up with clonezilla live CD. The image will be stored on a NAS connected through NFS. Clonezilla could mount the NFS share and could see the two hard disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.

I selected /dev/sda for disk cloning. However I could not see the cloning progress and got straight into a prompt for reboot, poweroff, command line I tried to select /dev/sdb but the same issue. Arihant Gk 2013 Manohar Pandey Pdf Viewer.

Motherboard: EVGA x58 SLI LE Software: CloneZilla v1.2.2-26 2009 BACKGROUND -------------------- I'd like to create a clone of my system to a single 500 GB drive. It is running on RAID-1 using two 500 GB drives. However, CloneZilla returned an error that the BitMap failed. QUESTION ----------------- 1. Is it possible to generate a clone this way using CloneZilla? Is it possible to pull out one of the RAID drives to use that as the backup, and then inserting a blank drive to restore the RAID setup?

Does anyone know if it's possible to use Clonezilla on a WinXP machine installed on a Raid 1 setup and transfer it to a single drive solution?.

How do I restore the RAID setup in that case? Instead of inserting a blank drive, can you insert a drive that has an older backup on it? How will the system know which disk to restore in the RAID setup? Is it possible to use only one of the RAID drives to boot the system, and if I can create a clone, will that drive be able to boot by itself, or do there need to be both drives in the system?

It depends on how you do the RAID. If you use a hardware RAID controller, then almost all of them carve out some blocks for metadata staring at beginning of the HDD.

Easy way to find out from linux if this is the case is to cat /proc/scsi/scsi if the HDD shows the proper make/model of the HDD, then you should be OK. If, however, it shows you have an Adaptec disk drive or something similar, then you will not have desired results. (If using a RAID controller with metadata, then you can still clone the HDD, but you will not have desired results. So first elaborate on the situation. It would be good to know what OS you are running. On Windows systems I have been succesful putting a blank drive in and rebuild the raid, then remove the small drive and change the partition size on the on the remaining orphan using something like Easus Partition Manager. If it is a new OS like Server 2008, you only have to extend the partition in Disk Manager.

Once you have it working, you can then (of course) bring in another big disk and rebuild a raid. This swap and grow technique has been done on raid 5 arrays as well, It just takes a long time.